
Thirty-seven people were killed, including 22 children, by a disgraced former policeman with a gun and a knife who barged into a child development centre in Nong Bua Lam Phu province on Thursday afternoon, police said.
Another 10 were injured, six seriously, in the attack by Panya Khamrab, a former police sergeant who had been discharged from the force in June for drug possession, national police chief Pol Gen Damrongsak Kittiprapas said.